New up and coming GitLab CI/CD Features

What this post added

This post details upcoming CI/CD features in the 12.x release cycle. Key additions include hybrid Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG) for out-of-order job execution, improved pipeline rules for better clarity, and feature flag controls for progressive rollouts. It also outlines plans for associating milestones with releases, simplifying Kubernetes runner setup, enhancing GitLab Pages availability, integrating with HashiCorp Vault, extending merge request pipelines to forks, automating release evidence collection, supporting Helm v3 charts, refining workspace definitions, improving parallelization tuning, and introducing child/parent pipelines for complex orchestration. The post also mentions improvements to pipeline duration and test run trend monitoring.